Researchers unmask malaria parasite's cloaking mechanism
...ndan Crabb, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international research scholars at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, set out to test the hypothesis that P. falciparum uses gene silencing to mask its presence. Their findings are published in the April 8, 2005, issue...2005 AAAS human rights directory now available
...for Congress, other U.S. government officials, and international human rights groups; and organizes symposia on human rights-related issues. The program was established in 1977 to give scientists a way to help their colleagues around the world whose human rights are threatened or violated. Mobilizing effective ass...Lasers, laureates, competitions infuse symposium to celebrate physics milestones
...PHIA/USAAmazing Light: Visions for Discovery is an international symposium and competition that celebrates extraordinary achievements and perspectives in physics. During this United Nations World Year of Physics, Amazing Light celebrates the 90th birthday year of Charles Townes, who received the Nobel Prize in 196...A new way to share models of biological systems
...ioinformatics Institute (UK) and the SBML Team, an international group that develops open-source standards to describe biological systems. Other contributors include the Keck Graduate Institute (USA), the Systems Biology Institute (Japan) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Even the simplest living organi...Innovative collaboration brings Arctic science into the classroom
... Canadian, and Alaskan Arctic, participating in an international research effort and at the same time learning about cultures and ways of life in other parts of the Arctic. "This is a win-win situation, and it's a lot of fun!" says Holmes. The majority or Holmes' current research takes place in the Arctic (field...USGS workshop on the impact of carbon dioxide on marine life
... scientists from NOAA and NCAR. It brings together international experts who will compare research on the impact of increasing CO2 on skeletal formation of coral reef organisms and other marine life, and propose courses of action to deal with the impacts of rising CO2. They will examine the technology needed to mo...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher receives NSF CAREER award
...rch papers, presented at more than 50 national and international symposia, and organized several conference sessions on the topic of microfluidics with mass spectrometric detection. The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute has a research platform centered on understanding the "disease triangle" of host-pathogen-envir...Three researchers recognized for advancing the Navy's environmental efforts
...th U.S. laws, including individual state laws, and international treaties. This patent was key to the development of the Plastics Waste Processor, which was developed according to a Congressional mandate. The processor shreds the plastic into small chips, and then a separate unit melts, sanitizes and compresses t...Designing vaccines by computer
... it will trigger a response. Dr Darren Flower, an international leader in this work, said, "A crucial feature of this search strategy is that we don't have to know what a foreign protein actually does in order to identify it as having fragments that that could make good vaccines. This approach has the potential t...Society of Nuclear Medicine to offer first $25,000 Mallinckrodt Seed Grant
...e at Mallinckrodt. Eligible applicants are U.S. or international basic or clinical scientists employed by academic or research-oriented organizations. Applicants must hold a full-time faculty position in an educational institution when the award starts and must have completed all advanced training. Applicants must...Scientists to meet in Dallas for conference on cytochromes P450
... enzymes. "This is the 14th meeting in a series of international meetings," notes conference organizer Dr. Sandra Graham. "The last time this meeting was held in the United States was in 1997 in San Francisco under the auspices of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). While the Inter...8th World Wilderness Congress announced
...eds. The Congress, founded in 1977, was the first international environmental gathering to include indigenous peop...lyover Scientist/explorer Michael Fay, who gained international renown for his 1999 trek through Central Africa, will offer the first report on his latest expeditio...Water research initiatives at UW-Madison
...ists at UW-Madison are participating in a landmark international study to determine how quickly mercury in rainfall...ison water chemist James Hurley is working with an international team of scientists who are experimentally adding small amounts of mercury to a lake in Ontario, Cana...Cornell graduate student named 2005 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leader
.... "I'm very interested in looking at domestic and international policy dealing with agriculture and sustainable development," she says. Laughlin's doctoral research is a study on the ecological risks of gene flow from genetically engineered virus-resistant crops to wild crops, an issue she says she enjoys in part...Can money grow on trees? Win-win strategies for 'sustainable bioprospecting'
...n 18 April. Telephone interviews with European and international media can be arranged on 14-15 April. Please use ...onment in source countries, and the limitations of international processes governing this process (the most important being the CBD and the Agreement on Trade Relate...Next-era targeted therapy overcoming Gleevec's shortcomings
...ore than 70 percent of advanced CML patients in an international study have shown a response to the drug, AMN107, and that patients with the early form of the disease have responded at a rate of more than 90 percent. "If you can take a pill and rescue people who failed the current standard of care, that is remarka...Research notes: Policy points from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts
... become a well-established and central part of the international donor and United Nations response. According to Helen Young, director of the Public Nutrition Program at the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts and lead author of an article in Lancet, Public Nutrition, which includes nutritional assessme...New tumor suppressor gene linked to cancer predisposition
...ate's Comprehensive Cancer Center, working with an international team of colleagues, had long suspected that a particular stretch of DNA on chromosome 13 known as a rich source of mutations linked to various malignancies might be the location of other genes important in carcinogenesis. Multiple tests with a port...Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition
...t common sense to create smarter fishing gear." An international panel of expert judges unanimously awarded the grand prize and $25,000 to Beverly, an American working in New Caledonia and a former high school biology teacher, commercial fisherman, commercial diver and tugboat operator. He noted that fisheries' lo......ts would be helped, Johnson said, citing a serious international problem with both underuse and underdosing of the drugs. In the past five years, beta-blockers have become a standard part of the treatment for heart failure. Patients with the disorder have enlarged hearts that lose the normal heart shape and becom...